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Waterhouse, Keith Spencer

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Waterhouse, Keith Spencer (1929– ), journalist, novelist, and dramatist, had considerable success with his second novel, Billy Liar, a regional comedy about a youth who attempts to escape his dull family life through fantasy, which he adapted for the stage in collaboration with W. Hall (1960). Waterhouse and Hall subsequently worked together on many stage, screen, and television plays, adaptations, and musicals. Other novels include Office Life (1978) and Unsweet Charity (1992). Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell (1989) was a successful dramatization of Bernard's Spectator columns. City Lights (1994) is the first part of his autobiography.

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Waterhouse, Keith

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Waterhouse, Keith, see HALL, WILLIS, and O'TOOLE.

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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Waterhouse, Keith." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Waterhouse, Keith." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-WaterhouseKeith.html

PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Waterhouse, Keith." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-WaterhouseKeith.html

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